| Most recent season or competition: 2022 Women's FIH Hockey World Cup | |
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| Sport | Field hockey |
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| Founded | 1974; 51 years ago (1974) |
| First season | 1974 |
| Organising body | FIH |
| No. of teams | 16 |
| Continent | International |
| Most recent champion |  Netherlands (9th title)(2022) |
| Most titles | Netherlands (9 titles) |
| Official website | fih.hockey/worldcup |
TheWomen's FIH Hockey World Cup is thefield hockey World Cup competition for women, whose format for qualification and the final tournament is similar to the men's. It has been held since 1974. The tournament has been organized by theInternational Hockey Federation (FIH) since they merged with the International Federation of Women's Hockey Associations (IFWHA) in 1982. Since1986, it has been held regularly once every four years, in the same year as the men's competition, which is mid-cycle between Summer Olympic games.
Of the fourteen tournaments held, only four teams have won the event.Netherlands is the most successful team, having won the title nine times.Argentina,Germany andAustralia are joint second best teams, having each won the title twice. The Netherlands and Australia are the two champions able to defend their titles. At the end of the 2018 World Cup, fifteen nations had reached the semifinal of the tournament.
The size of the tournament has changed over time. The 1974 and 1978 World Cups featured 10 nations (smallest); the 1976 World Cup featured 11 nations; the 2002 World Cup featured 16 nations (largest), and the remaining seven World Cups have featured 12 nations. The World Cup was again expanded to 16 teams in 2018, and the FIH will evaluate the possibility of increasing it to 24 in 2022.[1]
The 2022 tournament was held inAmstelveen andTerrassa from 1–17 July, withNetherlands winning a third consecutive title and a record ninth title after beatingArgentina 3–1 in the final.
| Team | Titles | Runners-up | Third places | Fourth places |
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| Netherlands | 9 (1974, 1978, 1983, 1986*, 1990, 2006, 2014*, 2018, 2022*) | 4 (1981, 1998*, 2002, 2010) | 1 (1976) | |
 Argentina | 2 (2002, 2010*) | 4 (1974, 1976, 1994, 2022) | 3 (1978, 2006, 2014) | 1 (1998) |
 Australia | 2 (1994, 1998) | 3 (1990*, 2006, 2014) | 2 (1983, 2022) | 3 (1981, 2002*, 2018) |
 Germany^ | 2 (1976*, 1981) | 2 (1978, 1986) | 2 (1974, 1998) | 4 (1983, 1994, 2010, 2022) |
 Canada | 1 (1983) | 1 (1986) | ||
 Ireland | 1 (2018) | |||
 Belgium | 1 (1978) | 1 (1976) | ||
 United States | 1 (1994) | 1 (2014) | ||
 England | 1 (2010) | 1 (1990) | ||
 Spain | 1 (2018) | 1 (2006*) | ||
 Soviet Union# | 1 (1981) | |||
 South Korea | 1 (1990) | |||
 China | 1 (2002) | |||
 India | 1 (1974) | |||
 New Zealand | 1 (1986) |
| Continent | Best performance |
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| Europe | 11 titles, won by theNetherlands (9) andGermany (2) |
| America | 2 titles, won byArgentina |
| Oceania | 2 titles, won byAustralia |
| Asia | Third place (Korea,1990 andChina,2002) |
| Africa | Seventh place (South Africa,1998) |
| Team |  1974 | 1976 |  1978 | 1981 |  1983 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994 | 1998 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2014 | 2018 | 2022 | 2026 | Total |
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| Argentina | 2nd | 2nd | 3rd | 6th | 9th | 7th | 9th | 2nd | 4th | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 3rd | 7th | 2nd | Q | 16 |
| Australia | – | – | – | 4th | 3rd | 6th | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 4th | 2nd | 5th | 2nd | 4th | 3rd | 12 | |
 Austria | 8th | 9th | – | 12th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | |
| Belgium | 5th | 4th | 3rd | 8th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12th | 10th | 6th | Q | 8 |
| Canada | – | – | 5th | 5th | 2nd | 3rd | 10th | 10th | – | – | – | – | – | – | 15th | 7 | |
 Chile | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 13th | 1 | |
| China | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6th | 7th | 11th | 3rd | 10th | 8th | 6th | 16th | 9th | Q | 10 |
 Czechoslovakia# | – | – | 9th | – | – | – | – | Defunct | 1 | ||||||||
| England | – | – | – | – | 5th | 5th | 4th | 9th | 9th | 5th | 7th | 3rd | 11th | 6th | 8th | 11 | |
| France | 7th | 6th | – | 9th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | |
| Germany^ | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 4th | 2nd | 8th | 4th | 3rd | 7th | 8th | 4th | 8th | 5th | 4th | Q | 16 |
| India | 4th | – | 7th | – | 11th | – | – | – | 12th | – | 11th | 9th | – | 8th | 9th | 8 | |
| Ireland | – | – | – | – | – | 12th | – | 11th | – | 15th | – | – | – | 2nd | 11th | 5 | |
 Italy | – | 10th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 9th | – | 2 | |
 Japan | – | – | 6th | 7th | – | – | 11th | – | – | 10th | 5th | 11th | 10th | 13th | 11th | 9 | |
 Mexico | 10th | 7th | – | 11th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | |
| Netherlands | 1st | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 6th | 2nd | 2nd | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 1st | Q | 16 |
| New Zealand | – | – | – | – | 7th | 4th | 7th | – | 6th | 11th | – | 7th | 5th | 11th | 5th | Q | 10 |
 Nigeria | – | 11th | 10th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | |
 Russia | Part of the Soviet Union | 12th | – | 16th | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | |||||||
 Scotland | – | – | – | – | 8th | 10th | – | – | 10th | 12th | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | |
 South Africa | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7th | 13th | 12th | 10th | 9th | 15th | 15th | Q | 8 |
| South Korea | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3rd | 5th | 5th | 6th | 9th | 6th | 7th | 12th | 13th | 9 | |
| Soviet Union# | – | – | – | 3rd | 10th | 8th | – | Defunct | 3 | ||||||||
| Spain | 6th | 5th | 8th | 10th | – | 11th | 5th | 8th | – | 8th | 4th | 12th | – | 3rd | 7th | Q | 13 |
 Switzerland | 9th | 8th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | |
 Ukraine | Part of the Soviet Union | – | – | 14th | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |||||||
| United States | – | – | – | – | 6th | 9th | 12th | 3rd | 8th | 9th | 6th | – | 4th | 14th | – | Q | 10 |
 Wales | – | – | – | – | 12th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
| Total | 10 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 16 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 16 | 16 | 16 | |
| Year | Debuting teams | Successor and renamed teams | ||
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| Teams | No. | CT | ||
| 1974 | Argentina, Austria, Belgium, France, India, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, West Germany^ | 10 | 10 | |
| 1976 | Italy, Nigeria | 2 | 12 | |
| 1978 | Canada, Czechoslovakia*, Japan | 3 | 15 | |
| 1981 | Australia, Soviet Union* | 2 | 17 | |
| 1983 | England, New Zealand, Scotland, United States, Wales | 5 | 22 | |
| 1986 | Ireland | 1 | 23 | |
| 1990 | China, South Korea | 2 | 25 | |
| 1994 | Russia# | 1 | 26 | Germany |
| 1998 | South Africa | 1 | 27 | |
| 2002 | Ukraine# | 1 | 28 | |
| 2006–2018 | No debuts | 0 | 0 | |
| 2022 | Chile | 1 | 29 | |
Argentina, Germany and the Netherlands are the only teams to have competed at each World Cup; 28 teams have competed in at least one World Cup.
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